I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones. Manuel Puig Read Quote
I have three brothers and one sister, and I’m the third child. Sometimes people say, ‘It’s only natural you would become a writer – your parents were English professors.’ But my four siblings were brought up in the exact same household, and no one else became a writer or an English professor. Antonya Nelson Read Quote
I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw ‘Doctor Zhivago’ every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater. John Hughes Read Quote
My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together. Ann Druyan Read Quote
The thing I love about music is, if you do it long enough, you get better and better at translating what’s in your head to a medium. That’s why I keep doing it. El-P Read Quote
Making loans accessible to millions of the previously unbankable customers is a noble goal. Getting them hooked to such loans isn’t. Evgeny Morozov Read Quote
We have such an energetic live show. We have so much fun onstage. We swap instruments. We might possibly be the sweatiest band in the business. St. Lucia Read Quote
I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We’re supposed to be complete and whole, and you can’t be whole if you’re trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please. Jane Fonda Read Quote
